Wukong Baron Lane Wild Rift overview and best build snapshot
Best Build
Quick snapshot of the default setup for this guide.
Boots
Items
Summoner Spells
Spell 1
Flash
Spell 2
Ignite
How to play
Take short trades and leave with your clone Use your 3rd ability to dash in and your 1st ability for a stronger attack. Then use your 2nd ability to leave a clone and briefly turn invisible.
Keep fighting when your target is vulnerable Hitting champions with attacks and abilities builds armor and health regeneration from your passive. Keep fighting while strong, but save your 2nd ability to escape.
Use your ultimate around your teammates Knock up several enemies and use the second cast to keep the fight under control.
Guide author
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Strengths
- The clone works like a free defensive cooldown: enemies waste key spells on the wrong Wukong.
- Strong burst all-in behind a hard-hitting empowered strike, dangerous to squishies and tanks alike.
- Cyclone (Ult) can knock each enemy up once per cast, and Wukong may cast it a second time within its recast window for another knockup.
Weaknesses
- Cooldown-gated: with dash and clone spent, he has no exit and few answers.
- Falls off against full-build carries, so his early lead has a time limit.
- Ranged poke wears him down before every all-in window.
Wukong Baron Lane Wild Rift best build, items, runes, summoner spells, and skill order
ITEM BUILD
Best Wild Rift build for Wukong Baron Lane, including items, runes, summoner spells, and skill order.
STARTING ITEM
Early health, and his passive already grants armor for damaging champions, so both scale the same trade.
BOOTS
Armor and health on top of the armor his passive stacks from every trade.
CORE BUILD
Clears the wave and gives magic durability, so he holds the side lane and still arrives able to take a rotation.
The max health damage and heal trigger on the empowered attack his Q (1st) gives him, which keeps his duels winnable without crit.
Build this when Wukong needs armor and anti-heal. Entwine applies Grievous Wounds from his own damage as well as enemy attacks, so Cyclone (Ult) can keep it on several champions during the engage.
Cyclone (Ult) keeps Wukong in the middle of several enemies, where Unending Despair adds another area hit and heal while his clone and second knock-up extend the fight.
Build this when you are spinning in the middle of the enemy team and need both armor and magic resist.
SITUATIONAL ITEMS
The burn scales with bonus health and ticks on everyone caught in his spin.
Boot swap against heavy magic damage and crowd control. Tenacity shortens most disables so Wukong can reposition or use the second Cyclone (Ult) cast sooner; being controlled does not inherently cancel an active Cyclone (Ult).
The shield grows when Wukong's dash and Cyclone (Ult) place him among several enemies, protecting the window between his first knock-up, clone reposition, and second cast.
Build this when the enemy team has multiple crit champions, so his spin does not end the moment it starts.
Build this when a removable disable catches Wukong before he reaches the backline or between Cyclone (Ult) casts. Cleansing restores his ability to reposition; it is not needed merely to keep an already active Cyclone (Ult) spinning.
Replace Hollow Radiance when Wukong can trade attacks into several melee champions and needs skirmish sustain more than magic-defense wave clear. The first attack against each champion delivers an empowered hit and a heal, with a separate cooldown per target.
Replace Hollow Radiance when Wukong's team has several physical carries and needs Armor reduction from his repeated area damage. Health and haste support longer fights, while repeated physical damage reduces Armor for your whole team.
Replace Hollow Radiance when sustained magic damage matters more than extra wave clear for Wukong. Repeated champion magic damage stacks extra Magic Resistance and movement speed, making it a sustained-magic-damage answer.
Replace Hollow Radiance when AP poke or opening burst prevents Wukong from starting a healthy engage. High Magic Resistance and a magic shield protect against AP poke or opening burst. The shield needs time without taking magic damage to return.
RUNES
KEYSTONE
Permanent health growth, and his lane is repeated short walk-up trades behind his clone.
PRIMARY
His ultimate spins him through a group, which is when this gives the most.
His clone covers a commit, not chip, so this handles the poke that wears him down first.
His ultimate puts him in the middle of everyone, and the health decides how much of it he survives.
SECONDARY
His E (3rd) is a dash, so the bonus true damage triggers as he reaches his target.
SITUATIONAL RUNES
Take this over Overgrowth when crowd control is a bigger threat than long-term health. Its tenacity shortens most disables and grants temporary defenses while immobilized. The shorter disable preserves Wukong's chance to reposition with his clone and deliver both Cyclone (Ult) casts.
Take this over Sudden Impact against durable teams that let Wukong stay in the fight. Shorter Crushing Blow (1st) and Warrior Trickster (2nd) cooldowns give him more armor-shredding attacks and another clone-assisted reposition.
SUMMONER SPELLS
MAIN SPELLS
Flash
Must take. Flash into his ultimate is how he catches more than one target in the spin.
Ignite
Take this for early kill pressure in the solo lane, since one kill is usually enough to start snowballing it. The Grievous Wounds also makes it strong into champions with a lot of healing.
SITUATIONAL SPELLS
Teleport
Take this over Ignite when the lane is against you. He clears well and is strong on items, so a free reset keeps him farming toward them.
SKILL ORDER
Skill Priority Order
- 11st Ability
Q - 23rd Ability
E - 32nd Ability
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Wukong Baron Lane Wild Rift matchups and counters
Wild Rift matchup guide for Wukong Baron Lane, covering favorable lanes and difficult counters to prepare for in ranked.
Good Matchups
These champions are favorable matchups for this pick in Wild Rift. You have advantages against them and can play more aggressively.
Gnar
Nimbus Strike (3rd) closes Mini Gnar's boomerang spacing, while Warrior Trickster (2nd) can make him spend Hop (3rd) or a Hyper (2nd) attack on the clone instead of Wukong. Commit only while his rage bar is low, save Cyclone (Ult) to interrupt the escape after Hop (3rd), and disengage before Mega Gnar gains the crowd control that reverses the matchup.
Renekton
Renekton's kill threat lives in one empowered stun, and your clone makes him guess which Wukong to spend it on. Once that combo misses, he has no follow-up.
Darius
Darius needs an extended brawl and his pull needs the right target: the clone hands him the wrong one, and your burst is done before the bleed ever stacks up.
Yasuo
His windwall (2nd) stops projectiles you do not have, and the clone eats his engage, so a committed combo bursts a squishy skirmisher before his crit items arrive.
Wukong Counters
These champions counter this pick in Wild Rift and can be difficult matchups. Learn how to play against them or consider banning them.
Sion
Sion has more health than your burst can finish: the charged knockup catches your dash-in, his shield soaks the combo, and the zombie passive keeps fighting after he dies.
Malphite
Malphite's armor stacking and shield are exactly what your burst cannot punch through, and the clone does not fool a ground-targeted charge that can still land on the real you.
Shen
Shen's taunt punishes a champion who commits a full combo: the moment you dash in, he pulls you into a trade on his terms, his block eats your autos, and his sustain outlasts your burst.
Volibear
Volibear tanks your burst and heals through the brawl: his charge stun catches your dash-in and his bite heals mid-fight, so your burst window never quite finishes him. His level three all-in also beats yours.
Wukong Baron Lane Wild Rift game strategy and teamfighting guide
Wild Rift game strategy for Wukong Baron Lane, from early lane control through mid and late game map play to final teamfights.